The rest of the journey

Alright. So these are going to be incredibly disorganized blog posts, as opposed to how perfectly I normally try to do it. Oh well. Asi es la vida.

TUESDAY
Tuesday we arrived in Punta Arenas. Seriously, I was barely functioning. Sarah had to save me from walking in front of cars too many times to count. I wish I was kidding. . . . Recuperation would take more than one night, we quickly learned.

We had a great dinner that night, though. We met up with two of the other girls that Sarah knew, and they stayed at the same hostel and stuff.

We also bought HORRIBLE cookies this day. HORRIBLE. They don't have brown sugar here, which means all cookies = bad.

Good news: Felt really proud of myself/ourselves for the most part of this day. Yeah, we might have turned back a day early. But we still did it.

Bed early. I think. Who knows --- it was still light out.

WEDNESDAY
We wandered around the city this morning, to the cemetery (where you'll see the pictures of the awkward-looking trees). We saw some sculptures, and went to a mirador where you can see everything of the city. Beautiful views, everwhere, a la Chile.

We had one penguin tour canceled on us this day. We were going to go to a sanctuary-type place, where they roam free. But the weather was too bad, so we ended up getting rescheduled for a different place. It was probably for the better, quite honestly. The first one had more hiking. I didn't really have the ganas to hike.

ALSO! On this day, Sarah scored some AMAZING stuffed penguins!! Look for them in the pictures!

THURSDAY
Today, we took a ferry to Porvenir, which is one of the most accessible cities of Tierra del Fuego, the largest island in South America. Sarah played with a little kid on this boat ride. He was from TdF, which makes him a FUEGINO!!! Baha, funny word to say!

Porvenir is a tiny town. Nothing was open. We had 2 hours there, and it was PLENTY (read: too much). But all of the people there were SO NICE. Well, in the entire southern part of Chile. They said hello. They drove slowly. They let you cross. Kind of the opposite of the rest of Chile...

Ate an awkward lunch on the boat. Bread and cheese. Ohh, Chile. But we had good conversations on the 2 hr boat ride back. It was cool to think hard again, in a way other than linguistically.

At 9:20 pm, the sun was stil up. And I realized that I really didn't want to go back to school EVER.

FRIDAY
We went to Isla Magdalena this day. Another penguin reservation. Billions of penguins (legit 100,000). SO CLOSE TO THEM!! Insane.

We also met some cool people from the US. The husband was working in the south on a NASA mission. Cool beans.

Worth getting up at 5:30 for.

SATURDAY
This day, we did a tour of the southernmost cities. Puerto Hambre, Fuerte Bulnes. Cool stuff!!

Also, we killed 2 1/2 hours in a cafe before our 1 am flight.


Oh traveling. I'm amazed at how comfortable I've become traveling. Even though it makes me feel nomadic.